Smoking cessation counseling in Qatar: Community pharmacists' attitudes, role perceptions and practices by El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh

“…Main outcome measures: Qatar community pharmacists' smoking cessation practices, their attitudes toward tobacco use, smoking cessation and smoking cessation counseling and their perceived barriers for smoking cessation counseling. Results: Over 5 months, we collected 127 surveys (40 % response rate). …”
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The Structure of the Free Volume in Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) from Positron Lifetime and Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) Experiments by Dlubek, Gunter

“…The mean hole volume, vh, varies in PS between 105 Å3 (27 °C) and 220 Å3 (190 °C), and shows a systematic decrease with increasing AN content, at Tg from 121 Å3 for PS to 102 (±2) Å3 for SAN50. …”
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Origanum Syriacum Inhibits Proliferation, Migration, Invasion and Induces Differentiation of Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells by AlDisi, Sara

“…Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are still the number one cause of morbidity and mortality both in Qatar and worldwide. A major risk factor of CVDs is atherosclerosis, the hardening of blood vessels caused by decreased diameter and formation of plaque. …”
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Understanding the progress and challenges in the fields of thermo-catalysis and electro-catalysis for the CO2 conversion to fuels by Yadav, V. S. K.

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Global Consumption Trend of Antifungal Agents in Humans From 2008 to 2018: Data From 65 Middle- and High-Income Countries by Pathadka, Swathi

“…Consumption of ketoconazole slowly declined, with 5.04% annual decrease, probably due to labelling changes in 2013 to reflect hepatotoxicity concerns. …”
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Pd nanocrystals encapsulated in MOF-derived Ni/N-doped hollow carbon nanosheets for efficient thermal CO oxidation: unveiling the effect of porosity by Ipadeola, Adewale K.

“…This is evidenced in the great ability of Pd/Ni-MOF-HNC to utterly oxidize CO at a lower complete conversion temperature (T100) of 114.5 °C compared with Pd/Ni-MOF-NC (153.8 °C) and Pd/C (201.5 °C) under atmospheric pressure. …”
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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TOWARD ACTIVITY RESTORATION OF NOVEL CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE MUTATIONS by AL-SADEQ, DUAA WALID

“…This study investigates the impact of five pathogenic CBS missense mutations [c.1006C>T (p.R336C), c.689T>A (p.L230Q), 215A>T (p.K72I), c.707C>A (p.T236N), and c.457G>A (p.G153R)] identified in homocystinuria patients and appeared to be resistant to pyridoxine treatment on the biochemical and biophysical properties of CBS protein. …”
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Calmodulin Mutations Associated with Congenital Cardiac Disease Display Novel Biophysical and Biochemical Characteristics by Nomikos, Michail

“…In contrast, in the presence of Ca2+, there was a significant decrease in the stability of the five proteins following the order CaMWT> CaMN98I > CaMD132E > CaMQ136P > CaMD134H. …”
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Development of CuAg/Cu2O nanoparticles on carbon nitride surface for methanol oxidation and selective conversion of carbon dioxide into formate by Nazir, Roshan

“…Herein we report a catalyst consisting of CuAg/Cu2O nanoparticles (NPs), synthesized on the two-dimensional carbon nitride (CN) surface via galvanic exchange route for electrocatalytic methanol oxidation and carbon dioxide reduction. …”
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Hydrogen Production via Ethanol Decomposition over Bimetallic Catalyst by Ashok, Anchu

“…Once it reaches the ignition temperature, the combustion reaction started locally at one point and then spread inside the beaker. The resulted powder was grinded using a mortar and pestle to get a uniform powder to be used for catalytic investigations. …”
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Flight Scheduling in the Airspace by Msakni, Mohamed Kais

“…In this study, we developed a scatter search (SS) to deal with larger instances. …”
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Effect of Magnetic Baffles and Magnetic Nanofluid on Thermo-Hydraulic Characteristics of Dimple Mini Channel for Thermal Energy Applications by Souayeh, Basma

“…The increment changed to 1.82%, 8.16%, and 22.31% for a pitch = 5 mm and 1.01%, 5.96%, and 21.38% for a pitch = 2.5 mm. …”
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Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes by Kwon, Taeoh

“…We assessed how macroclimate and atmospheric inorganic N deposition under current and predicted scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 8.5) might affect litter mass loss measured after 3 and 12 months. …”
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Association between Insulin and Nitric Oxide in Human Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells in vitro by Rizk, Nasser Moustafa

“…This study demonstrated that hyperglycemia causes an increase in ROS/oxidative stress and apoptosis, while insulin promotes a significant decrease in ROS and apoptosis. eNOS mediated NO production increases with hyperglycemia but remarkably decreases with insulin treatment after 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours. …”
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Thermal and mechanical characterization of injection moulded high density polyethylene/paraffin wax blends as phase change materials by Sotomayor, M.E.

“…The blends were prepared from 5 to 50vol. % of paraffin wax employing a twin-screw extruder. …”
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Biodegradable thermoplastic polyurethane composites as potential plating systems in pediatric facial fractures by ALANI, AYA AHMED

“…The H12MDI based thermoplastic polyurethane was prepared using 12% HS 50:50 BD-Poly D, L-lactide -co-glycolide, then the composites were prepared by the addition of 3 and 15% of hydroxyapatite, respectively. …”
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Effect of outdoor temperature on the power-conversion efficiency of newly synthesized organic photosensitizer based dye-sensitized solar cells by Mehmood U.

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Molecular and Structural Changes in Induced-Brain Stroke Tissue Using FTIR Imaging Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron and Atomic Force Microscopy by Ali, Mohamed H

“…All the samples were viewed with a FEI Quanta 200, USA scanning electron microscope at 10 kV. …”
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Modification of Pd/CeO2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of ZrO2 by Onn, Tzia Ming

“…Methane-oxidation rates in 0.5% CH4 and 5% O2 were slightly lower on the ZrO2-covered catalyst when both materials were calcined at 673 K but the activity of the ZrO2-modified catalyst did not decrease with catalyst calcination temperature. …”
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Effect of serum lipoproteins on stereoselective halofantrine metabolism by rat hepatocytes by Patel, J. P.

“…Experimental hyperlipidemia has shown to decrease cytochrome P450 3A4 and 2C11 expression and to increase liver concentrations and the plasma protein binding of halofantrine (HF) enantiomers. …”
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